Rs 8,08,318 crore agriculture credit disbursed till December 2016

Friday, March 24, 2017, 3:51 PM

Minister of State for Finance Santosh Gangwar said a total of Rs.8,77,527 crore worth of agriculture credit have been disbursed in 2015-16 and Rs.8,45,328 crore in 2014-15. The central government, the RBI and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development have taken a number of steps to provide hassle-f ree crop loan to farmers, including small and marginal farmers and landless labourers.